there are lines that cannot be crossed yet
I can only agree with your comment.
I was amazed at how quickly the former Soviet Union collapsed. In the book, Innovator’s Dilemma, the author goes into detail about how quickly companies lose their market lead and the fall to the wayside. Likewise, Jared Diamond’s book, Collapse, shows many examples of civilizations which collapses when faced with a variety of threats.
I wonder how much longer the people of China will tolerate ever more pollution in the environment. There is a river in China that is so badly polluted, the government told people not to even touch the water. When will this line be crossed? Does it take more or less money to kick this can down the road?
I understand the idea that economic progress was what the CCP used to justify its continued existence, but once you can’t breathe the air, people are bound to fight this lax environmental regulation. Is it really a choice of eating or breathing?
Here are some blunt comments from CCP members:
But she laughs sardonically when asked to explain her emotional attachment to the party. "I feel no such attachment, and I don't know anyone who does," she says bluntly. "In our society, the Communist Party rules. If you get in, you have more chances to further your career. That's it."
Rocked – not for the first time – by corruption scandals, bereft of inspiration or ideology, irrelevant to increasing numbers of Chinese citizens, and united only by an overriding determination to maintain its grip on power, the party "is now entering the riskiest period" of its history, warns Wang Changjiang. And he should know: He is the head of the "Department of Party Building" at the Central Party School in Beijing, the party's intellectual inner sanctum.
The Chinese Communist Party is a political party unlike any other, Wang reminds you. "We did not win power through democratic elections but through revolution. Our system is a dictatorship," he says bluntly. "And our biggest challenge is still how to make the transition from a revolutionary party to a ruling party."
In recent years, he says, the party has been stepping back from ordinary people's daily lives and is now "like background noise, not as prevalent as we often think. And as it becomes less relevant and necessary to people's lives, the risk is that the regime will become less stable," he adds.
Mr. Xi, the new Communist Party leader, has launched a campaign against corruption, warning soon after he took over last November that popular disgust at rampant dishonesty among Communist officials could "ultimately lead the party and the nation to perish."
"Party corruption is the No. 1 problem in ordinary Chinese people's minds," says Lin Zhe, who wrote the party's first graft-busting textbook. "It is undermining the party's legitimacy, and we have to do something about it before people's patience snaps."
For a party that came to power on promises of equality, this is dangerous, Wang acknowledges. "The scandals threaten the party's authority," he says. "Even though the economy is growing, the party's credibility is declining."
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